⚠️ The Kubernetes community still cannot agree on what to call this shit. Even the official documentation changes from “object” to “resource” with wild abandon confusing the hell out of beginners. They are the same thing. The most definitive place to read about them is the Kubernetes API documentation itself (see Related).
It could be that the “object” term comes from the fact that Kubernetes is primarily a REST API and each of these resources (normally thought of as being contained in a YAML manifest file) are actually REST objects first and foremost. This would explain the confusing use of both “resource” and “object” when referring to a thing in Kubernetes.
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